Miku Hatsune Solo Concert – 39’s Giving Day (Miku’s Thank’s! Giving Day) was presented by Project DIVA.
Project DIVA is under SEGA.
It is true that SEGA does not have right over Miku, but they do have right over the concert itself.
Basically the concert is just a big advertising skit for thier Project DIVA games.
The PSP version also had 39 songs, and the concert ticket came with the Project DIVA Arcade IC Card.

I could be wrong but I believe Miku and Company are copyrighted figures.
Still I cannot understand why they would have videos deleted that give that expensive performance publicity. Unless I’m mistaken this is the first time transparent screens have been used in such a successful fashion.
Thankfully I got to see them before deletion and now I’m really enlightened at their possibilities.

Hopefully we’ll see more (properly done)displays like this in the future.

I’ve been worried about this for awhile. That somehow a single company will find a way to “own” everything Miku because she’s such a hot property.

You would think Yamaha or Crypton would have more of a right than Sony, but you have to figure the copyrights regarding things having to do with Miku are complicated because there are so many different technologies involved.

All of the companies involved are really in danger of getting greedy and shooting themselves in the foot if they aren’t careful.

LUKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-SAMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! I finally got to see her onstage!!! I was on the verge of passing out when I see her but glad my consciousness still allows my poor eyeballs to capture her splendor!!!! Never once in my life I feel it to be so accomplished like this…..Not when I get lots of cash nor when I’ve been at the top of society, those mean nothing to me and I can gladly give it all away if in exchange I can see an entire day of her doing live concert, a concert for her and only her alone …. THIS IS IT!!! The blessing of my life that I’ve been looking for….And I left as soon her stage was finished since I don’t have any more reason for staying there. There’s no point…. My eyes can only see her graceful figure, my ears can only listen to her heavenly voice,my nose can only smell her elegant odor, and my touching sense is embraced by her warmth….Thank you holy Japan for somehow granting my dearest wish, if I have to die now, I die as the happiest person on earth TT^TT

Actually SEGA DID sponsored the concert. The whole thing was put together by SEGA. Not Crypton, not Yamaha, not GoodSmileCompany, but SEGA. They have all the rights to request for video removal for copyright violation.

The whole thing was an event to thank fans for the success of Project Diva while hyping up Project Diva 2. This was no mere MMD as real money is involved.So it is natural for them protecting it. But frankly, I can’t see how a piss poor stream on youtube would actually hurt them. I’d still buy it on Blu-ray.

All of you if you scroll up you’ll see a link posted by an Anon that’ll take you to the whole 2 hours of the show. It streams as a single vid, but if you attempt to download it’ll break it into 7 mins segment. Happy now?

Moetron.com has links to the whole concert. Don’t let the Nico comments fool you, they are only during the first few minutes and a short intermission. The only available DL is a rip of the Nico broadcast. Only way we’ll ever get better quality is if it’s released on DVD or BR.

So how did they actually pull this off? I mean, yeah, projectors of some kind, but there’s a lot of stuff going on such as the stage lights behind the characters getting blocked as they move in front of them.

Although it’s creepy in concept (fans of a computer singing pop songs in time), the technical execution was very well done.

Sega obviously don’t appreciate the attitude to sharing and free promotion which made Miku great. Quite an outrageous attitude when they are not even the primary copyright holders of either the characters or the songs.

Since they are going to keep knocking off the major video hosts I won’t bother replacing them, but if anyone provides me with these or their equivalents I will see if they can be restored using more robust hosting.

Thanks, this is it but it is far to large to do anything with I think. I’d still like to repost them but the amount of effort involved is looking prohibitive.

In any case, if it’s not possible for a site of any size to post videos of an actual Vocaloid event without hassle from Sega it hardly seems worth bothering. Bizarre that they don’t want the publicity, but there you are.

I think you should try maybe vimeo or veoh.. those sites aren’t as strict as youtube are, there’s also one place that is suppose to be a russian knock off of youtube they have very lenient policies as well.
I just hope you don’t give up on publishing them somewhere because I think it’s really unfair to the rest of the world for sega to do something like that.

I’d like to point out that the article picture references “The Sirens of Titan” by Kurt Vonnegut. It may not his most popular book, but I personally think that it’s his best novel and also one of the best science fiction stories ever written.

Wow from far away or when the camera is zoom out, it actually looks like a person was dancing and singing on stage. However, once you zoom in or look at Miku from an acute angle, it’s all smoke and mirrors.

AIIIIIIIIIIII! Migitkata no Chou segment was AMAZING! I thought my fervor for Len had died down, but…AIIIIIIIII!
In all serious though, this is simply wonderful. I wouldn’t mind having to work in 3D animation if I would be able to work on projects like this.

Anonymous said:
It's really nice, but I find this a bit uncanny too…
It's like they tried to make her a bit realistic(color-wise) but she fails to blend in with reality.

Reality heheh reality is the shit we routinely see on TV.

I'm rather happy she bears no similarity with a lot of the overly fake looking sluts of MTV.

I'd be plenty happy to see a lot more of this sort of musical entertainment, and a lot less of the crap that passes for it.
I stopped watching mainstream music videos at the end of the 80s, and I haven't had much reason to change that recently.

This is the result of clever optical tricks with a projector and some mirrors reflecting light so her image appears to be in one place. For a minute I was like “wut” as well. As light is constant holograms are impossible to create unless you created a powerful electromagnetic force to contain all the photons in one concentrated area. A real live android is more conceivable than a hologram.

I thought it was neat how her arms would somewhat tangle up and interact with her hair – not something you normally see with 3D animation where limbs tend to pass through hair/hats/clothes when they get in the way.

Though it did seem a bit creepy with the rear-view camera angle shots, where normally you’d see the back of the performer, but with Miku she’s still facing you.

Certainly look forward to when they use a proper 3D hologram and not just a screen 😀

I was never a huge Miku fan but I just have to say.. The japanese on onto something big here. Goes to show that you don’t need a real person to be an idol.. I do like most of the songs though.. Saved all the HQ youtube vids to my hdd XD.

I think making her way too realistic wouldn’t look like Miku at all. She looks realistic enough to look like she’s really on stage, but still retains that 2D/virtual cute appearance. AWESOME RABURI in my opinion!

This concert hit me bad as an avid Vocaloid fan, alright; but I still can’t help wonder how much money they made out of this. Rent a place, get a Project Diva Arcade and screen it on a huge display, make some musicians play back there and you fill up the damn place.
Nice, really; I congratulate whoever is making these concerts…

Holy shit, it's like that concert from Macross.
The 3D models are creepy though. Uncanny valley total, they should've made them cell shaded or something like that.
EDIT: lol, the crowd goes nuts with PoPiPo. Check the third video at 4:20, awesome!